LASER Institute Badges
LASER Badges
Orientation
This badge is earned for completing the LASER orientation learning lab badge requirement covering the concepts of open science and reproducible research for application to learning analytics using R, R Studio, and GitHub Desktop.
Foundational Skills
1. Data Sources in Learning Analytics
This badge is earned for completing the first Foundations learning lab badge requirement on the types of data typically used to perform learning analytics in education.
2. The Learning Analytics Workflow
This badge is earned for completing the second Foundations learning lab badge requirement on the Learning Analytics workflow.
3. Data Visualization
This badge is earned for completing the third Foundations learning lab requirement on the basic principles of data visualization as it relates to data graphics, including data visualization perception and color.
4. Data Products
This badge is earned for completing the fourth Foundations learning lab badge requirement on the essentials of crafting a data product for different stakeholders.
Text Mining
The primary Text Mining badge is earned by completing the capstone project which covers the skills gained in the following 4 learning labs.
1. Text Mining Basics
This badge is earned for completing the first Text Mining learning lab badge requirement which covers getting our text “tidy” so we can perform some basic word counts, look at words that occur at a higher rate in a group of documents, examine words that are unique to those document groups, and create visualizations such as word cloud.
2. Dictionary Methods
This badge is earned for completing the second Text Mining learning lab badge requirement which covers dictionary-based text mining techniques and sentiment analysis.
3. Topic Modeling
This badge is earned for completing the third Text Mining learning lab badge requirement identifying “topics” by examining how words cohere into different latent, or hidden, themes based on patterns of co-occurrence of words within documents.
4. Text Classification
This badge is earned for completing the fourth Text Mining learning lab badge requirement which covers using text classification to build predictive models for intelligent systems.
Machine Learning
1. Prediction
2. Feature Engineering
3. Model Tuning
4. Unsupervised Methods
Social Network Analysis
The primary Social Network Analysis badge is earned by completing the capstone project which covers the skills gained in the following 4 learning labs.
1. Introduction to Social Network Analysis
2. Network Measurement
3. Group & Egos
4. Models & Inference